Farmers’ perceptions, preferences, and propositions for result-oriented measures in mountain farming

Alexander Wezel, Audrey Vincent, Heike Nitsch, Otto Schmid, Monika Dubbert, Erich Tasser, Philippe Fleury, Sybille Stöckli, Matthias Stolze and Daniel Bogner

Land Use Policy, 2018, vol. 70, issue C, 117-127

Abstract: Throughout the last decades, both reactive and proactive incentive policies have been developed to support farmers implementing environmental and biodiversity friendly management practices. More recently, however, result-oriented agri-environment measures have also been designed, where farmers are remunerated based on the achievement of certain results (e.g. a specific number of plant species on grasslands) and not solely on the implementation of defined management practices. We analysed this specifically in the context of mountainous farming in different Alpine countries. We carried out 79 interviews with farmers in different case study regions in Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and Switzerland. They included also details regarding farmland and biodiversity management, as well as the farmers’ perceptions of and involvement in result-oriented measures. Lastly, we asked farmers to suggest new future measures.

Keywords: Agri-environment measures; Alpine grasslands; Grassland biodiversity; Outcome-oriented measures; Payment by results (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.10.020

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